law
892 occurrences across the corpus
King James Version
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments;
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have kept thy law.
The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
O how I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law.
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.
It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
They draw nigh that follow after mischief: they are far from thy law.
Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.
I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD:
He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.
The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.
The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law;
Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
And thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; If ye will not hearken to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
So I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open:
And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:
They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Mischief shall come upon mischief, and rumour shall be upon rumour; then shall they seek a vision of the prophet; but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients.
And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour’s wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter in law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.
Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king’s decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.
Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him.
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.